EU: Caucasus states cannot join Europe before rows settled

20.09.2004

Yerevan. (Interfax) – The South Caucasus states cannot integrate into Europe
before they resolve disputes between them, European Commission President
Romano Prodi said on Sunday.

Prodi told a news conference in Yerevan that was unclear today whether any of
the South Caucasus countries had a chance of ever becoming a full European
Union member.

But he said that six months ago he could not even dream of the possibility of
Azerbaijan, Armenia, or Georgia being invited to join the EU New Neighbours
program.

He said the extent to which the EU would carry its relations with each of the
three countries would depend on the nation’s economic and democratic
development.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress